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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Autumn; my favorite time of the year

I lit a candle with dinner last night; that tells me it's Autumn and I love it............

Karen has some pictures at her blog you MUST not miss........way better than mind. Give it a look...you won't be sorry! Happy Autumn! Do you have any Autumn stories to share? Ever been in anything like the red/yellow/orange foliage above?

33 comments:

AH, but it's lighting candles in the house again, and beef stew and snuggly blankets and beautiful sweaters and boots and not perspiring the minute you go outside, and reading a book when it's raining outside and the promise of Thanksgiving and Christmas and.......

I hope that the change of colour isn't too disappointing this year... with the recent storms we lost a lot of leaves in MD... and they're already falling out of the trees w/o changing colour so.... hmmmm.

Hate it because with it comes falling leaves to rake the end of swimming season and sooner than I like the cold winds followed by ice and snow, ARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!. Give me 76 degree weather this time of the year up until May,then warm up to the 80's and 90's, my kind of weather.

I love Autumn too Z. It has always been my favorite season. Our Long Island tradition in the Fall is driving to the east end of the island for wine tasting and fresh fall veggies from the farm stands. It's God's country out there.Of course yes the candles too,especially the pumpkin spice scented ones.

Scotty, I think I'd miss it, but I'm from here, LA, so I don't know cold winters.paris and Munich could get cold and Munich can snow something fierce but not very often. Paris hasn't really had a dump of snow in years; Actually, the year after we left got the most they'd had in ages; and they had snow quite heavily over the last century...you can see it in so many painters' work.I loved the cold!

The pictures are beautiful. I enjoy autumn, but my favorite is Spring, heralding in Summer. Our trees are just beginning to turn this week. I will be able to get pictures soon.Love beef stew and candles, but would you believe my husband is allergic to both!

You are all wrong. It's all about football. Baseball is just a placeholder until kickoff.

Z said: " and they had snow quite heavily over the last century...you can see it in so many painters' work."

If the works of which you speak were in the 19th century, that's when the world's climate was coming out of the Little Ice Age. The world has been getting warmer ever since the end of the 19th centrury after about 400 years of extremely cold weather.

During that time they had Frost Fairs on the frozen Thames River; Napolean tried to conquer Russia and froze hundreds of thousands of French soldiers to death; George Washington crossed a Delaware River full of ice floes; and there were famines in much of the world.

I've always said that fall is my favorite time of year. The color, the anticipation of cooler days, fires, the holidays approaching, snow, crisp air, and so on.

But then when winter sets in and I'm forced to stay inside because I'm afraid to drive on even a hint of slick roads and the temps hover around zero for days on end, then I get really impatient for spring.

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